Open AccessReducing Traumatic Brain Injuries in Youth Sports: Youth Sports Traumatic Brain Injury State Laws, January 2009–December 2012
Author(s) -
Hosea H. Harvey
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2012.301107
Subject(s) - traumatic brain injury , injury prevention , state (computer science) , poison control , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , law , psychology , occupational safety and health , criminology , applied psychology , computer security , political science , medicine , medical emergency , psychiatry , computer science , algorithm
I sought to describe current state-wide youth sports traumatic brain injury (TBI) laws and their relationship to prevailing scientific understandings of youth sports TBIs, and to facilitate further research by creating an open-source data set of current laws.